Ontiveros Quotes & Sayings

To him who prays, and as he prays, the hour is sacred because it is God's hour — E. M. Bounds

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah. — Lupe Ontiveros

The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way. — Lupe Ontiveros

I set out for your parents' house straightaway. — J.K. Rowling

Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart. — Lupe Ontiveros

I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new limbs to do what it needs to do. So there's very little planning. There's a little planning where I say, "Well, it looks like I'm going in this direction, ok, good." But there's very little forethought or intellectual justification: "Oh, look, I'm putting in a theme park because that represents dystopian America!" — George Saunders

We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs ... We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community. — Paul Wellstone

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. — Lupe Ontiveros

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's. — William James

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police. — Ludwig Bemelmans

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations. — James Geary

Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve. — John Kennedy Toole

That's all a shadow is - and though you might be prejudiced against the dark, you ought to remember that that's where stars live, and the moon and raccoons and owls and fireflies and mushrooms and cats and enchantments and a rather lot of good, necessary things. Thieving, too, and conspiracies, sneaking, secrets, and desire so strong you might faint dead away with the punch of it. But your light side isn't a perfectly pretty picture, either, I promise you. You couldn't dream without the dark. You couldn't rest. You couldn't even meet a lover on a balcony by moonlight. And what would the world be worth without that? You need your dark side, because without it, you're half gone. — Catherynne M Valente

As Christians, we must get rid of the notion that the only answer for life's troubles is for us to die and go to heaven. Don't be mistaken - heaven is real and is greater than we can possibly imagine. But the kind of attitude that says rescue from this earth is the only thing we live for is an insult to the power of the blood of Jesus and the purpose of redemption. — Bill Johnson

I want to dominate the man's world. — Marina Abramovic